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Wink Wink 2011 - A bit of a change this year
ellis:
is this a late april fools joke? no link.
Koremora:
Nope. Just posted the link!
ellis:
Well, in that case. I may owe you my future child. THANK YOU.
est:
New Architecture in Helsinki this friday. Please don't let me down, Wink Wink thread.
edit: nevermind, I have the promo. Huzzah!
Architecture In Helsinki - Moment Bends (Promo) [2011/CD/MP3/320]
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yop:
Chrissy Murderbot - Bussin Down EP
--- Quote ---Chrissy Murderbot does the Chicago quickstep onto Planet Mu with some help from DJ Spinn and remixes by Rashad, Atki 2 and Ghosts On Tape. His 'Bussin Down' original built with Spinn should hold it's ground next to the more linear productions from Rashad and the Ghettophiles crew, while 'Braaain' goes for the effect of DJ Roc's 'One Blood' but comes off maybe a little more like Shitmat. Toying with 'The Vibe Is So Right' Atki 2 takes MC Zulu on a swaggering tribalist House vibe with flashes of deep-end jungle, while Rashad & Spinn cut in a razored Footworker and Ghosts On Tape jam out a cut-up Dancehall wounder.
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Blawan - Bohla EP
--- Quote ---The R&S renaissance continues with three uniquely lethal tracks from one of the UK's most exciting young producers. Like Untold before him, Blawan respectfully infuses his hardcore swung rhythms with a sound most commonly associated with the label, the good 'ol 303. It forms an integral part of each track, from the chirruping squiggles smudged into the loping swingjack groove of 'Bohla' to the detuned gurgles eating into complex tribal polyrhythms on 'Kaz' or dissolved into the bass-sunken new world jack of 'Lavender'. Aside from sounding fiercely technoid and alien, his use of acid sequences with swung or broken patterns exposes a vital connection between Belgian and UK hardcore dance musics, where tribal febrility meets cybernetic reality in a marriage of exotic futurism.
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Lurka - Return / Stabiliser
--- Quote ---Slick sophomore effort from Lurka, operating on some teched-out tribalist tip for Box Clever. A-side 'Return' is like a synthesis of Shackleton's dread drums with the dynamics of Instra:mental and the groove trickery of Ramadanman. 'Stabiliser' is more centripetal; crisp, organic drums dissappear into a vacuum roller primed for those who like their riddims lean, dark and dextrous.
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Lone - Echolocations EP
--- Quote ---Does this man bleed MDMA?! Lone brings his £20-pill-strength sound to R&S for a six track session of skin-tingling, face-wiping House music. With a sound redolent of Fabio & Groovrider playing the Hacienda circa '91, 'Echolocations' cannily closes a 20 year circle for R&S, time-splitting us between '91 and '11 with the Funky snares and one-finger keys of 'Coreshine Voodoo' before coming off like a hyper BoC on 'Explorers' and retiring to the chill-out room for a breather on 'Dolphins'. Back in the mod for some, 'Approaching Rainbow' incites a baggy jack in the finest style of 808 State, all hands-in-the-air chord progressions underscored by a subtle Latin-rhythmic House influence. Again, 'Rapid Racer' sounds like some nascent Gerald Simpson production, perched on the cusp of hardcore, House and Bleep, just imagine some lycra clad go-go dancer with fishnets and massive bouffant and you're there, mate! Final tune 'Blossom Quarter' is the one the crowd's been waiting for, even recreating the dizzying feeling of an intense subbass pressure drop through canny use of his signature compressions and really capturing the essence of what made folks then, and now, go for it. Big record, feeling it.
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Kryptic Minds - Can't Sleep
--- Quote ---Slick sophomore album from one of Dubstep's darkest units. Since stepping into the 140bpm shadows with 'One Of Us', the duo have almost fully assimilated the scene's characteristics, yet retained clear traces of their D&B DNA. 'Can't Sleep' features thirteen exquisitely engineered tracks, from the uptempo swerve and swagger of 'Just After Sunset' to the sprawling dread vistas of '1000 Lost Cities'. Previous single 'Can't Sleep' is at the core of the album, Alys Be providing their first vocal on a deeply moody halfstep roller and also appearing on the Burial-esque rollidge of opener 'Brief Passing', but the highlights for us have to be the 4/4 driven 'Arcane' with its chillingly dank sound sphere or the 'ardcore-tucked minor key symphonics of 'Alone', one for the sullen bassbin crew! There's a deadly sense of midnight dystopia and urban ennui which is articulated so beautifully through Kryptic's expert sound design and super-taut grasp of halfstep mechanics, which really shouldn't be ignored by fans of Burial, Pangaea, They Live or even Massive Attack.
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2562 - Fever
--- Quote ---Dave Husimans cements his reputation as a virtuoso beat breaker with his crucial third album 'Fever'. While previous LPs 'Aerial' and 'Unbalance' carved out a whole section of Dubstep crossover all for himself, with 'Fever' he's largely dropped the tempos in line with the dancefloor's move to Housier climes. It's a case of one step back, two steps forward as he imposes strict parameters for the production: every sound used was sampled from disco records. Of course, once those sounds are isolated, Husimans does whatever the f*ck he wants with them, resulting in a uniquely textured and deftly twysted evolution of sound. From the Latin Rascal-ish stutters of opener 'Winamp Drama' it's clear we're in for a different kind of trip. 'Cheater' comes next with more familiar patterns, but his usually aerodynamic arrangements are replaced with more weight, drums rub and spark off each other and the whole atmosphere is murkier, clouded with basement condensation. Again, with 'Aquatic Family Affair' his beats bristle with a frictional electricity, that scissoring swing syncopation shredding with a ruder clip. At the midway point 'Intermission' comes closest to the beat structure of the records he samples, tucking-up a deadly Boogie swing with very canny snare placements, as heard through squinted ears, while 'Flavour Jam Park' is just classic 2562, an extremely lean and brittle structure that feels like it may topple over at any time, before we roll into the ruffed-up couplet of 'This Is Hardcore' and the jabbing metallic stabs of 'Brasil Deadwalker'. The energy is then cooled and controlled for the crispy swing of 'Final Frenzy' and the agile dip of 'Wasteland,' while the title track pulls off some kinda Theo-meets-Domu-in-zero G stunt. Like the recent Falty DL opus, this guy has found a special balance of soul-tugging swing and technical dexterity which deserves your undivided attentions. Highly Recommended.
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